Posts by Mike Holden

NZ police cuff teenage botnet mastermind suspect

What's the point?

What's the point of compromising some compromised PCs? Is it easier than compromising uncompromised PCs?

Coat? Goddit.

Camelot pulls scratchcard amid numerical anarchy

I live in Levenshulme

... and it really is like that!

I'm not from there though, I'm from the edjumakashionally soopeerya area of Wigan.

"The Manchester Evening News concludes: "More than 15 million adults in Britain have poor numeracy - the equivalent of a G or below at GCSE maths." "

so, is that an F or an H?

Flying cow destroys minivan

Still on the DA theme...

... maybe its last thoughts were "Oh no, not again."

Scottish? You're drinking too much

Where's the rest of the booze gone?

That other missing half of the sales that nobody has owned up to drinking? I drank it all, on a particularly good night out last week.

Mandriva Linux 2008 is out and about

@how big?

Does Vista have a complete office suite included? webservers, mailservers, choice of desktop "engines", choice of database servers, choice of programming language support, choice of browsers, choice of choice?

Of course not.

Add on to Vista a Vista Office package, IIS, Exchange, SQL Server, and all the other stuff you get for free in a Linux distro and see if it is as smal (and you still only have a choice of one each time). Oh and add on a mortgage to pay for it all.

Oh and of course Red is better than blue, any day.

Bloke buys supercar 'without proper consent from the wife'

Babies

So the boot is small enough to cram 2 kids into, but the 3rd won't fit in the glovebox?

Almost all CCTV systems are illegal, says expert

@Recommendations anyone?

If you have a computer available, the possibilities are endless. Pretty much any webcam comes with monitoring/motion detection software. It's simply a case of how much you are prepared to pay for quality of image, and many have network connectivity or even wifi (so long as you don't mind your brain getting fried), so location doesn't need to be physically next to the computer.

Czech Olympic Committee annihilates English language

@Is this official?

> and it doesn't even display the COC

And this is where we came in, with references to the Czech porn industry

Why oh why do rock stars die young?

Maddy Prior ...

... will be as surprised as the rest of us to find out she is dead (and died young at that), given that she is currently on tour, aged at least 50 (neither wikipedia or her official web site give her year of birth, but I'm guessing around 1950 since she was working as a musician in the late sixties, presumably as a late teenager or early twenties)!

Maybe you meant Sandy Denny, who died in 1978 aged 31?

Another investigation into Pirate Bay child porn

Re: C'mon, even they say it's a search engine

Just becase somebody reports something as KP doesn't necessarily make it so. People make false accusations all the time.

As stated above, the only way to verify whether it really IS KP is to view it, and that is illegal.

Monster warns victims and pledges better defense

Here in the UK...

... we say "CV", none of this froggy imported stuff please :)

All of world's biggest firms hit by typosquatting

Passing off?

How can using a similar name be construed as "passing off"?

Passing off involves pretending to be the "real" company, so would require a web site looking very similar to the original (as in phishing sites).

Landing on a page full of adverts for penis extensions, viagra, pictures of naked "ladies" or whatever other wares are advertised on these sites is not going to fool a cack-handed punter into thinking that they are on the real site, therefore clearly no "passing off" has taken place.

'Portable' CD player puts MP3 into a spin

Rotation speed

I think what the original poster said about different rotation speeds is correct. He's not saying that different parts of the disk spin at different speeds at the same time (which would obviously break it), but that the whole disk spins at different speeds depending on which part of the disk is being read at the time.